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Welfare reform efforts in the state of Wisconsin have met with remarkable success in moving welfare recipients to work, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson told an audience of nearly 125 at an Institute of Politics speech at the Arco Forum last night...
Thompson, a Republican, described to audience members his now-famous "Wisconsin Works" welfare reform program (W-2), which was first implemented earlier this year...
Since Thompson's reforms were implemented, the number of people on welfare in Wisconsin has decreased by 92 percent while the unemployment rate has fallen to 2.8 percent, the lowest rate in 30 years...
...question-and-answer period following Thompson's speech, one audience member asked whether Wisconsin's system has been able to help individuals who many social programs fail to reach...
...blew open my mind to the possibility of other cultures," Dunn says. "I was a kid from Wisconsin who was suddenly exposed to a much wider world...